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- From: tsangc@ecf.toronto.edu (TSANG Calum Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Walker (A1200Walker)
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- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:51:25 GMT
-
- >
- >Take a look at the Web PC's in the March issue of BYTE. They all have a funky
- >design. I guess the marketing concept is that they are not trying to sell to
- >the typical computer user, but to newbies, who might even be intimidated by
- >computers in general. So a funky design may be more appealing. BTW all these
- >machines will typically use one generation old cpu's with small effecient OS's.
- >No one is planning to use Monolithic Software's We Invented Nothing - 95 OS.
-
- But the problem is, it's not funky, at least that's my opinion.
- Like for instance, that new Packard Bell PC is funky. It fits in a
- corner, saving space. Or, some of the new Macs have different designs.
- But the AmigaWalker saves no space, and has no features a normal tower
- doesn't already have, except the rounded shape. Which is a pain, because
- you can't balance a modem on top of it, or an external CDRom drive, etc.
-
- The best comparison I have for it is the Panda Project's
- Archistrat 4 PC/Mac servers. But at least they're in pretty colours,
- like purple, blue and red. Not black. The drive looks SOOOO silly in
- white/beige.
-
- I think if you take an opinion poll of normal people, and put
- this Walker thing, and also a mainstream PC like a PowerMac 5200, or IBM
- Aptiva, most would not choose the Walker as the prettiest design,
- regardless of hardware, OS, etc.
-
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